Shaving-brush



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(Nvo Model.)

G.. D. PUSHEE.-

SHAVING BRUSH. No. 350,502..

ma@ ML- N4 PETERS. PMWLhognphur. Walhingnm. D. C.

yPaelliied Oct.) 12, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE DURANTPUSHEE, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

vSHAVINGu-BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,502, dated October 12, 1886. Application med June 26, less. seriaiNo. 206.314. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE DURANTv PUsHEE, of Somerville, in the county of MiddleseX,of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful AImprovement in Shaving-Brushes; and I do hereby declare the saine to be described in the following specilication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which- Figure l is a side view, and Fig 2 a longitudinal and median section, ofa brush of my invention, the nature of which is detned in the claim hereinafter presented.

Shaving-brushes are usually made with a banding or cord Wound around the handle and mass of bristles at and each way beyond their junction, such cord after being so Wound being covered with varnish. Barbers generally if not entirely prefer a corded brush to any other. After being in use for some time the varnish is apt to become worn off, and the cord soaked by the soap, so Aas to become loose and to slip down upon the bristles to the annoyance of the barber, and more or less loosening ofthe bristles.

In manufacturing my improved brush I have the handle and mass of bristles inserted in a metallic ferrule of the shape of a conic frustum and flanged atits smaller end. About this ferrule the cord is wound in aspiral with its coils in contact, the first or smaller coil being against the flange, which extends'froni the outer surface of the ferrule ata right angle thereto, all being as represented in the accompanying drawings, p in v which- A is the wooden handle, B the mass of bristles, O the metallic ferrule, (t its iange, and D the cording.

The ferrule constitutes a socket to receive the mass of bristles at their butts and to hold them in place by cement run between them y cording in place andk prevents it from slipping down upon the bristles.

I claim- As a new or improved article of manufactu re,a brush,subst-antially as represented,com posed ot' a metallic and hanged ferrule, as de` scribed, a mass of bristles inserted in and cemented in such ferrule at its smaller end, a

handle inserted and fastened in such ferruleI at its larger end, and a cord wound spirally.

about such ferrule and covered with size or varnish, all being essentially as specified.

R. H. EDDY, R. B. TORREY. 

